Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-05-19
A FOR
The Oil Well Rig Complete
in Every Particular.
STEAM UP, AND WORK BEGUN
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
COMPANY. ETC,
Full Description Of the Machinery in
s Everything in Splendid Order
and Success Assured.

plete in every particular, steam up
and unless something unlocked for
happens, the hole will have been
started by the time the LEDGER
reaches its readers. Hundreds of
gathered on Flat Rock,
to be present at the first stroke of
the drill, which the LEDdER cannon
announced. The military drum
corps was on the ground.
The Mexico Mining and Manu-
featuring Company is comparatively
a new thing. The subject of or
ganizing such a company was never
preached until the latter part of
November last, when at a meeting of
the Board of Trade, a few enterpris-
ing citizens took the matter in hand,
appointed committees and in the
early part of December it was an
nounced that a $4,000 company had
been organized. Later, per-
manent organization was effected,
and a charter obtained.
At a meeting held in December,
Rufus Hisey was elected president,
j. C. Bassford, vice-president, A. c.
Barnes, secretary and j. F. Llewellyn,
treasurer. The directors elected
were Rufus Hisey, J. C. Bassford, A.
G. Barnes, &. F. Clark and H.. A.
Ricketts,.
A. w. Wolf, of Washington, Pa,
was awarded the contract for the
work of boring a 5000 foot hole, work
to be commenced AS soon as posi-
BILE. Flat Rock, just west of the
Union Depot, was selected as a loca-
ton, and the hole will go down On
the property of W. B. McIntire, in
that part of the city.
The following description of the
machinery and rig written by a gen.
tleman of experience in this line,
will be read with interest at this
time:
The first thing that attracts the
attention of the visitor to Flat Rock
is the tall derrick about eighty feet
10 height with the CONSPICUOUS sign
of the Oil and Gas Co. attached to it
near its top. Arrived at the derrick,
the visitor finds it has a planked
floor about sixteen feet square at its
base, with a hole in the centre for the
drill, and a platform on its top to
support the pulley over which the
drill rope works. The next thing
examined will probably be the hoist
ing shaft. supported by journals and
having drums at each end of it, con-
nected with bands to the driving
drum of the engine. The drill rope
is to coil around the shaft and pass
over the pulley at the top down to the
drill tools. The main use of the
shaft is to lower and raise these tools
into and out of the hole. After
examining these the visitors eye will
most probably aiight on the walking
beam, supported by a post and at
tached by an adjustable crank at one
end to the axle of the driving drum.
1t has a radius of about twenty
inches, and communicates a recipro.
eating motion of similar extent to the
other end Of the beam, to which is
bolted an iron joint to which the
temper screw and sucker rods may
be attached. It is also connected by
a rope with o clamp to the drill rope
The OBJECT of this continuance is t.
churn the drill TOOLS The drill tool
consist of a stem, into which tn
tools themselves are attached b,
screws, which is about twenty fee
long and weighs in the neighborhoo'
of sixteen hundred pounds, Ascendin
from the lowest tool which is th
opening bit there is q reamer t
widen and smooth the hole. Afte
this is the sinker bar and on top @
that the jar or hammer by which th
effect Of the stroke of the bit is il
creased. At intervals of from six t
twelve feet these will be withdraw
and The pulp crested by their opers
ton removed by Il sand pump Thi
is a heavy medal tube smaller tina
, the hole and closed at the lower en-
when drawn up by a valve, by mean
; of which, besides removing the sed
ment, information is impaired to th
: operators of the progress of the wor
and the character Of the stratas per
etrated. The tubing consists G
heavy iron pipes lowered into tn
hole by sections. The first sectio
has a ball pump valve connected b
a rope or wire with a cylinder, ope'
ated by the driving drum, by meal
of which the ball can be introduce
and withdrawn. The obstacles us,
|. ally encountered in drilling OIL
houlders, crevices and quicksand
which blunt the drills and obstru,
L their operation and often detach the.
: from the rope. The c~ontrivances
overcome these obstacles and acc
dents are so numerous that they ia
not be described IN this article.
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